@Emad-R : There's a market for that too... 🙂

@NashBrydges said in Trying my luck in Toronto, Ontario:

@manxam said in Trying my luck in Toronto, Ontario:

@JaredBusch : Waterloo is over an hour away from Toronto, so quite the difference. Considerably different "way of life" as well.

Similar to saying you live in Buffalo when, in fact, you live in Rochester...

Agree. I live in the Waterloo area and it is NOTHING like Toronto.

Not to anyone from outside the immediate area. Let alone another country halfway around the world.

@jaredbusch said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:

@phlipelder said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:

@mlnews said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:

Mercury News- H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies

Two weeks: That’s how quickly a foreign technology worker in Silicon Valley can get an employment permit from Canada. In the U.S., that process takes months.

As the administration of President Donald Trump has increased scrutiny of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers and plans to ban their spouses from holding jobs in the U.S., Canada has been moving aggressively to suck top foreign talent out of Silicon Valley and other technology-rich regions of the U.S.

The Canadian government won’t say if it’s leveraging the tumultuous and uncertain immigration climate in the U.S. But experts say Canada’s year-old “Global Skills Strategy” program, which offers work permits similar to America’s H-1B visa, is ideally structured to attract highly skilled foreign tech workers to Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Though immigrants make up just 20 percent of Canada’s population, they hold about half of the science, technology, engineering and math degrees at the bachelor’s level and above, government figures show.

Before the program launched, Canada’s employment permit process for skilled workers took months.

“It captures all of the Silicon Valley people, and it captures them quickly,” said Asha Kaushal, a professor at the University of British Columbia law school who studies immigration law.....

Heh, wait until they get their first tax bill. 😄

Umm, been to Chicago lately? And we don't get shit from it.

Heh … we don't have much to show for it either.

@scottalanmiller said

The more that you add, the better T-Mobile gets.

You mentioned, perhaps privately, to look into adding everyone in our company, including family members.

Do people actually do that? To me, it's always seemed like a PITA. Business users, sure. But family members?